A PODCAST ABOUT FORBIDDEN SPACE

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You have come to the place where we tell tales of the train and bus yard, the tenement yard and the prison yard.

We detail close calls and chase stories. We dig into larger conversations about crossing boundaries, the other side of the tracks, borders, and forbidden space.

Whether to make big life changes, to forward the artistic or professional practice, to escape peril—or just for the sheer thrill of it.

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Ryan McMahon: John Wayne Is Dead

Ryan McMahon; groundbreaking Anishinaabe comedian, writer, producer, and creator of compelling media confronts the borders he has faced throughout his entire career. Borders that he was able to kick down in an effort to create a new space for a new narrative about Indigenous presence in today's popular culture as we know it.

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Airto Morales: Behind The Wall

Multigenerational trauma and a life of violence led to many of Airto Morales' early years being incarcerated, ultimately landing him with a long prison sentence. But even after getting out from behind the wall, Airto never did leave the prison system.

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Chris Pape: Freedom Tunnel

First generation NYC graffiti writer, author, documentarian, archivist, and historian Chris Pape, AKA FREEDOM, tells his own surreptitious stories around the Upper West Side Manhattan train tunnel that was ultimately named after him. His decision to live on the streets and paint in the "Freedom" tunnel propelled him toward a career that he never could have imagined.

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Claw Money: Key To The City

World renowned graffiti writer, fashion designer, and cultural icon Claw Money recounts the many borders she had to cross in order to land in the space that she calls Claw & Co. When life puts a fence in your way, you climb it. When it puts a second one, you rip your pants.

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Bennington: Ghost Stories

Bennington alumni spanning four generations come together to share first person experiences and encounters they had on campus. As the stories unfold, undeniable parallels are drawn, and the liminality between life and death is laid bare before us.

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Scotty Hard: The Hard Way

Musician, producer, and engineer Scott Harding tells a life-changing story about a fateful night in Brooklyn in 2008. The line that Scotty crossed that night was a line that he never asked to cross.

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Garth Mullins: A Ghost In My Own Life

Garth Mullins is a journalist and radio documentary producer who focuses on the decriminalization of drugs, issues of race, class, environment, capitalism, colonialism, and oppression. Listen in as he details the struggles he has had to work through in order to become one of the leading voices in the fight for a safe and legal drug supply.

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Susan Tran: Canada Is Racist

Susan Tran is a Vietnamese Canadian who was kidnapped from her mother in Vietnam at the age of two. But she never knew that she even had a mother because her abductor was her own father, intent on keeping her abduction a secret. After immigrating to Canada, Susan discovered that her mother’s strength and resilience was the foundation for her own self empowerment.

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Lupe Maravilla: Tripa Chuca

Join us as renowned trans-disciplinary artist Lupe Maravilla recounts his harrowing tale of fleeing war torn El Salvador in 1984 at the age of 8. Crossing into the U.S. and reconnecting with his family was Lupe’s ultimate goal, but the journey that ensued continues to inform him in all of his practices to this day.

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Luz Fleming: Potreros

Luz Mob and friends recount a memorable night in the Potrero Hill bus yard of San Francisco in the winter of 1991. There were many nights when they hopped the fence into the forbidden space of the bus and train yard, but this one held a little more excitement than they had bargained for.

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